Dr. Abhishek Sharma, an incoming Cardiology Fellow at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, in his article appearing in the August 2014 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, describes the phenomenon known as the obesity paradox, where cardiovascular mortality is found to occur more frequently in underweight patients, and proposes possible contributing factors. Available at:http://tinyurl.com/kqb6j4s